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'EXTENSION TABLE.

' "No,l 276.159. Patented Apr.24, 1883.

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J. GLONBY. EXTENSION TABLE.

' I No. 276,159.

Patented Apr. 24, 1883.

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NITnD STATES JOSEPH OLOONEY, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

EXTENSION-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,159, dated .April 24, 1883.

Application led February 9, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l', JOSEPH GLooNEY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Extension-Tables 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ot' reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

My invention relates to extension tables which arettted with movableleaves connected to the sliding horizontal bars by pivoted links to admit of their depression, so as to pass under the stationary leaves when the table is closed.

It has for its object greater convenience in the manipulation of the table and greater coinpactness when the table is folded together.

In its construction the movable leaves are adapted to fold at each end over upon themselves, and to be so lowered as that one set shall pass down between the central slide-bars,

yand the other rest upon the bars below the level of the stationary end leaves to pass under the-latter when the table is closed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view' of my improved extensiontable partially extended, with one set of movable leaves lowered and another set folded in readiness to he lowered. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the table fully extended; Fig. 3, a similar section of the same when closed; Fig. et, a transverse section in line c a' of Fig. 2; Fig. 5, a view of the under side ofthe table when opened out, and Fig. G a similar View of the same when closed.

A A are the end leaves of the table, each fixed to an end frame, B, resting upon the legs O C, secured to the corners thereof. These end frames, B B, are connected and the frame of the table completed by means of a series of parallel slide-bars, D D2 D3 D4, tongned and grooved to interlock and slide with overlapping joints, one within the other longitudinally, in manner as is usual in extension-tables ofthisclass. TheeXtension-frameissupported by a leg, C', fitted to the central cross-bar under the slides. These-lap-joint slide-bars are adapted to close one within the other when the ends of the table are pushed together until the stationary leaves A A meet in the center, as shown in Figs. 3 and 6, and they are attached to the end frames in such a manner as to leave a space, (t, Fig. 2, between the top ot' the bars and the under side of the end leaves slightly greater than twice the thickness of the central movableleavcs, so as to allow these, when doubled an d when restin g upon they sliding bars, to pass freely under said end leaves.

To the inner end ot' each of the end leaves, A A, a longitudinal strip, E, is closely hinged, so as to form, in fact, an extension ofthe leaf, which will admit of being turned up at pleasure, for the purpose hereinafter indicated.

Next to the stationary end leaf, A, at each end of the table, a movable leaf, F, is tted. This leaf F is formed in three divisions, m m u. (See Fig. 4.) rlhe central division, n, is made ofa length somewhat less than the width of the space left between the two inner bars, D4 D, of the extension-frame, (see Fig. 5,) so as to ladmit of being dropped down between said bars, and the two outer divisions, m m, are hinged to the ends of the first to fold in thereon and to extend the same when open to the et. This central division, n, of the leafF is pivoted at each end by means of links W to the inner face ofthe side bars, It, of a frame, R R', fitted to slide longitudinally between the inner bars, D4 D4, of the extension-frame, so as to permit the leaf, when folded, to be swung and dropped laterally from the level ofthe end leaves, A A, ofthe table, as shown in Fig. 2, down into the frame R R', between the side bars, as shown in Fig. The frame R l slides freely longitudinally between the bars D4 D4, and is drawn out with the extensionbars by means of plates S S, made fast tothe under face of each of thecentral bars, D2, ofthe series, and which, extending therefrom inengaged by pins projecting from the frame into slots cut in the plate, as shown in Fig. 5. These slots permit a slight loss ot' motion between the plates andframe to facilitate the ad- When the slide-bar in its place in the table.

width of the end leaves, A A, as shown in Fig.

wardly over the ends of the frame It lt', are

justment ot' the leaf F, supported by the frame IOO D2 is borne in under the leaf it carries with it the fra-me R B and the leaf F, pivoted thereto, and draws it out again when the table is opened. y

The two central leaves, G G, of the table are also each formed with end pieces, m on', adapted to complete its length when opened out, and by folding in to so reduce its length as to admit of the passage of the leaf in between the side pieces of the end frames, B B. The central division of each leaf Gr is tted with links W W, which are pivoted thereto and to the outer face of the central division, D, of the extension-bars, so as to support said leaves Gr up over the bars on a level with the end leaves of the table, and permit them,when required, to be swung and dropped laterally down upon the side bars in position to pass under and be covered by the end leaves, A A, when the table is closed.

When the table is fully extended the movable leaves-which, when opened out, areall of a uniform length with the end leaves, so as to maintain a uniform width in the entire length of the table-hare supported by the pivoted links on a level with the end leaves, so as to afford the requisite uniformity of level in the entire length of the table, and the leaves are all fitted and joined to present a completev finished table-top.

When it is desired to reduce the length of the table the ends of the central leaves at one end of the tableare folded in to reduce their length. (See Figs. 1 and 4.) The hinged division of the end leaf is then lifted (see dotted lines, Fig. l) sufficient-ly to permit the movable leaf F next thereto to swing in toward the end leaf and drop down under it in between the slide-bars D4 D4, as shown in Fig. 4. The next movable leaf Gr is then left free to drop down in the same direction upon the side bars, as shown in Fig. 3, and by pushing in this end of the table the first movable leaf, F, is carried with the slide-bars under the second movable leaf, G, and both are inclosed by the end frame, B, and covered by the end leaf, A. lf it is required to make the table yet smaller, the second central leaf may be depressed in the same manner and in the same direction as the first, and by dropping the remaining leaf into the space between the side bars, in manner as described, the table may be closed up until the two end leaves, A A, shall meer.

The central movable leaves are thus neatly and compactly inclosed and enfolded within the closed table in two tiers, the one resting over the slide-bars immediately under the end leaves and the other under the first, in the central space between the slide-bars, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. In opening the table the operation above described is reversed, and the table is readily enlarged at pleasure by elevating and opening out one or more of the central leaves.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination, in an Vextension-table, with its fixed end leaves, A, frame B, and legs C, and with the outer parallel bars, D, in the extension-frame D D D2, Ste., of the vertically-adjustable leaves G, the foldingends fm of said leaves, and the pivoted links W', connecting the central section of each leaf with said bars D, whereby the folding leaves are carried and concealed within the end -frames and under the fixed leaves when the table is closed, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. The combination, in an extension-table, with the fixed leaves A, frame B, and legs C at each end of the table, and with the parallel sliding bars D D2 Da D4, and central stationary bars,D, in the extension-frame thereof, of the vertically-adjustable leaves F, having folding ends m, the auxiliary frame B It', fitted between the inner set of slide-bars, D4, devices S, connecting said frame with the middle slide-bars, D2, and pivoted links W, connecting the middle section of each leaf with the frame R R', whereby said folding leaves are carried and concealed within the auxiliary frames between the slidebars under the fixed end leaves when the table is closed, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' JOSEPH CLOONEY. Witnesses:

WALTER M. WOLFF., JOHN A. ELLIS. 

